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Computer generated imagery, or CGI, seems to be what movies are all about these days. It allows you to see weird distant planets, mythological creatures, and Robert Downey Jr. zipping around in an iron suit. (If they put me in that suit, all I could do is fall over.) But they haven't given me what I want. If they want to thrill me down to the bottom of my tub of buttered popcorn, they need to crank up their computers and generate one of the most thrilling images the movies have ever seen: They will have to generate Errol Flynn. I say this because I went to see that new "Robin Hood" movie. I walked out before it was half over, because if ever a movie needed a dose of Errol...

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